Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I 1 across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other．These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and 2 with dust．Deciding to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home．They 3 ．
As I carefully opened each letter, 4 of them fragile with age, I discovered a new page 5 unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives．
My father used to 6 in the army．So his letters were full of frontline 7 of the things about the war．Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss．I was 8 to these letters like a magnet(磁铁)．
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very 9 and was hospitalized．This time, he was fighting a 10 kind of war．As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the 11 ．He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had 12 to him when he had been so far from home．
It so happened that the next day would be February 14．From the 13 letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside．
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying 14 , "Today is Valentine's Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?" He became more 15 when I handed him the old 16 ．He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he 17 it, his eyes were filled with tears．
My father, in a 18 tight with emotion(情感)read the loving message he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years 19 ．And this time, he could read it to her in 20 ．
During our two months on the road，Bennett and I had a really 1 experience with a good, honest 2 and some helpful mechanics(机修师)．
We were driving east on Highway 10 when our “check engine” light came on．We limped(拐)off a(n) 3 into Las Cruces．We had a real car 4 ．Bennett nursed the car into a local garage．By this time the car was missing(熄灭)so 5 it was shaking all over．This was the 6 time to arrive at a garage–late Friday afternoon．Service adviser Scott was busy 7 paper work and customers as we 8 our problems． 9 he was already “ten cars behind”, he told us to pull the car into the garage．
Lincoln, who we later 10 was one of the top motor technicians，took 11 of our car repairing．He and Scott and some other mechanics stayed several hours after closing, 12 the car．
Early the next morning(the shop was officially closed on Saturdays), Lincoln finally located the 13 and fixed it easily within only 14 ．
Later Scott 15 out to us that it was our attitude that helped．“You didn’t come into the place demanding this or that．You showed an 16 of our problems on a busy Friday afternoon．Customer’s attitude means a lot．” He was right in some way, customers should show 17 and understanding to people who 18 them． 19 people were extremely busy, they found way to at least try and help when they are met with politeness．
The pleasant experience I had shows that 20 for other people can always help．
